the same thing--love ends in marriage, doesn't it?"

"It ought to," said Robin, sententiously.

"And marriage ends--in Pettigrews!"

"Innocent!"

"Don't say 'Innocent' in that reproachful way! It makes me feel
quite guilty! Now,--if you talk of names,--THERE'S a name to give
a poor girl,--Innocent! Nobody ever heard of such a name--"

"You're wrong. There were thirteen Popes named Innocent between
the years 402 and 1724," said Robin, promptly,--"and one of them,
Innocent the Eleventh, is a character in Browning's 'Ring and the
Book.'"

"Dear me!" And her eyes flashed provocatively. "You astound me
with your wisdom, Robin! But all the same, I don't believe any
girl ever had such a name as Innocent, in spite of thirteen Popes.
And perhaps the Thirteen had other names?"

"They had other baptismal names," he explained, with a learned
air. "For instance, Pope Innocent the Third was Cardinal Lothario
before he became Pope, and he wrote a book called 'De Contemptu
Mundi sive de Miseria Humanae Conditionis!'"

She looked at him as he uttered the sonorous sounding Latin, with
a comically respectful air of attention, and then laughed like a
child,--laughed till the tears came into her eyes.